Rendering facilities can utilize byproducts from packing plants or processing facilities and add value to livestock. Farmers Union Industries CEO Dale Bernard likes to think of rendering as the ultimate recycler. “We take a lot of products that would fill landfills and utilize them to make protein that goes back into the feed ingredient business.” Meat and poultry meal, feather meal and blood meal are a few examples. Bernard says poultry rendering slowed down in Minnesota this past year because of the HPAI outbreak. “Those birds couldn’t get rendered so we lost out on those pounds and that food didn’t go back into the food industry.”
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